Michel Parmigiani has accumulated 192 years of experience in horology since going into business in 1975. His company, Parmigiani Mesure et Arts du Temps, got its start restoring antique clocks that were considered beyond repair, like the 1820 Breguet Sympathique. In 1996 the company evolved into Parmigiani Fleurier, taking its turn at producing high quality […]

  Among the many things the Swiss do very well are two standouts: watchmaking and hospitality. The Swiss Jura, off the beaten track as far as tourism in this country is concerned, offers prime examples of both. Just as a trip to Neuchatel would not be complete without a watchmaking manufacture or museum visit, nor […]

Showing little signs of slowing down, the luxury watch industry has reported yet another rise in exports at the start of 2012. While Chinese tourist and China have always been a big driver of export growth, U.S. and Japan are also showing an acceleration of exports. Brazil has been noted as having potential to become […]

The perpetual calendar is one of the best known complications in watchmaking and one of the most useful: it’s a miniature computer that automatically corrects the date at the end of each month, since some months (as the children’s rhyme reminds us) are 30 days long, and some 31.  The odd man out is February: […]

  The perpetual calendar is one of the best known complications in watchmaking and one of the most useful: it’s a miniature computer that automatically corrects the date at the end of each month, since some months (as the children’s rhyme reminds us) are 30 days long, and some 31.  The odd man out is […]

Parmigiani Fleurier is on every watch lover’s radar in a big way right now, thanks to an unprecedented exhibition it’s brought to the United States for the first time in history.  The collection is the Maurice Sandoz Collection of clocks, watches, and mechanical automata, which was assembled by the son of the founder of Sandoz […]

There are times when the watch makes the man, and there are times when the man makes the watch. The last several years have given the world a range of truly intense luxury watches with designs so bold, they often threaten to steal attention from the person wearing the watch. No doubt there are times […]